Mae Jemison Quotes
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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It's 10 years overdue. It's amazing how TV forced the game's governors to do it.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
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I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
